Paul Beatty: The Sellout

The township of Dickens, California has been wiped off the map. The houses still exist, the people still live there, but the mark of an official's pen has taken the community away. And one man decides, haphazardly, to make a difference.

After ending up with a slave he didn't ask for, Bonbon decides to reintroduce pride back into the town of Dickens - not just by recreating the boundaries, but by reintroducing segregation.

The Sellout, the winner, of the 2016 Man Booker prize is a deeply intelligent and funny look at race in America.